We'll see how the usual suspects react to the new, post S.13 regime. It is probably far more unpleasant to have the police on your case than some bureaucrat from the CHRC. I suspect that Arthur Topham, for example, doesn't much like the new way of things. Although perhaps he is glorying in his new-found martyrdom.

At this point in the process it was not surprising. But you're right, even with their majority I didn't think the Tories would go through with it. Note though that they snuck it past as a private Member's bill. Every party that has tried to RUN on an anti-HRC platform (Hudak, for example) has backed away from it in the end.